Hat-fastener.



No. 779,180. I P'ATENTED JAN. 3, 1905. L. PEROTTI.

HAT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 21,1904.

iINiTED STATES Patented January 3, 1905.

LOUIS PEROTTI, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

HAT-FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 779,180, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed July 21, 1904. Serial No. 217,450.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LOUIS PnRoT'rI, a subject of the King of Italy, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in ladies hat-fasteners of the kind specified in my previous application, Serial No. 213,137, filed June 18, 190 1, and has for its object to arrange the same in such a manner that, immaterial of the fashion of the hair, it will secure the hat upon the head of the wearer.

The principle of the present invention is essentially the same as that disclosed in the above-mentioned previous application, there being only some improvements in the construction made to render the hat-fastener generally applicable.

It has been found that the hat-fastener of the previous construction can hold the hat in its position upon the ladys head when the lady has her hair combed back and arranged in a knot at the back. When, however, the hair is worn in pompadour fashion, the said hat-fastener does not suffice, as the long hair at the front becomes easily disengaged from the teeth and interlocking pin, or the hat, owing to the long hair of the pompadour, is still allowed to fly up. In the present invention this drawback has been removed in such a manner that the hair will not only be engaged by the pin, but also clamped between the latter and an intermediate piece formed as a spring-arm or a second comb. 1

This invention relates also to some othe improvements, which will be hereinafter more fully specified.

In order to make the present invention more clear, the same is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which corresponding reference-figures denote corresponding parts, and in which Figure 1 shows a plan view of a hat-skeleton with the new hat-fastener applied thereto.

Fig. 2 shows a front elevation of the hatfastener; Fig. 3, a rear elevation thereof; Fig. 4, a cross-section through line w of Fig. 2.

Referring to the drawings, numeral 1 indicates a plate of metal or any other suitable material bent according to the hollow of the hat, so as to fit upon the front or back wall of said hollow. This plate is provided with perforations or stitch-holes 2, by means of which it can be attached to the hat. At one side and at the lower end of the plate a plurality of teeth 3 are provided, which being of a suit ble length are adapted to freely engage the hair. At the opposite end of the hat-fastener the plate 1 is provided at its front with longitudinal depressions 4 and 5, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and {1. These depressions are located one above the other, and the lower edge 7 of the upper depression forms, with the lower edge 6 of the lower depression, a longitudinal guide 8 for the head 9 of a pin 10, the latter being curved to correspond with the shape of the hollow of the hat. At 11 in the inner side wall of the lower depression a slit or hole is provided to allow the pin to pass behind the teeth 3 when the pin is moved inward to grasp the hair at the back of the teeth 3. All these parts have been partly already specified and shown in the abovenamed previous application.

The improvements forming the subject of the present invention consist in that at the back and at the end of the plate 2 at which theteeth 3 are arranged a spring-arm 12 is journaled,having at its free end a pin 13, which projects outward through a vertical slot 14, made in the plate 2, into the impression 1. To the head 9 of the pin 10 a cam-shaped projection 15 is fixed to extend within the impressed portion 4: of plate 1. The object of this cam is to depress the pin 13 and therewith the spring-arm 12 when the pin 10 has been moved into working position, whereby the hair will be clamped between the springarm 12 and the pin 10 and will be prevented from becoming disengaged from the hat-fastener. By moving the pin backward the cam will disengage the pin 13, and the spring-arm 12 will by its own spring force be caused to return into its initial position, in which it will disengage the hair.

The hat-fastener of the present application can be applied to the hat not only at the front, but both at the front and back, by which the use of hat-pins will be entirely dispensed with.

It will be understood that various other modifications can be made with the different parts of the present hat-fastener, and Itherefore do not wish to restrict myself to the arguided in said plate and adapted to engage the hair behind the teeth thereof, means to clamp the hair after the same has been engaged by the pin, and means for shifting the pin, substantially and for the purpose as specified.

2. A hat-fastener comprising a plate having stitch-holes and being bent to correspond with the hollow of the hat and adapted to be attached to the inner wall thereof, teeth at the lower end of said plate, a correspondinglybent and longitudinally-movable pin guided in said plate, and adapted to engage the hair at the back of the said teeth, a spring-arm attached to the plate at one end thereof and above the teeth, a nose at the free end of the spring-arm, a cam attached to the movable pin and adapted to act upon the nose of the spring-arm to depress the same, and means for shifting the pin, substantially and for the purpose as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses,this th day of July, 190% LOUIS PEROTTI.

Witnesses:

J. HOMER HILDRETH, JOSEPH PEROTTI. 

